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  October 18
Formal transfer of the territory was made at Sitka on October 18, 1867.
This October festival costs no powder nor ringing of bells, but every tree is a liberty-pole on which a thousand bright flags are run up.
I didn't begin to do anything passable in my trip to Africa until the moment when I had sufficiently forgotten small details, and so remembered the striking and poetic side of things for my pictures; up to that point, I was pursued by the love of exactitude, which the majority of people mistake for truth.
www.wisdomportal.com /Dates/October18.html   (7599 words)

  
  Alaska Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alaska Day is a legal holiday in the U.S. state of Alaska, observed on October 18.
It is the anniversary of the formal transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States following the Alaska Purchase, which took place at a flag-raising ceremony at Fort Sitka on October 18, 1867.
Though Alaska Day is legally observed statewide, it is generally only celebrated in Sitka, where schools release students early, many companies close for the day, and events such as a parade and reenactment of the flag raising are held.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alaska_Day   (143 words)

  
 October 18 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years).
October 17 - October 19 - September 18 - November 18 - more historical anniversaries
This page was last modified 01:57, 12 June 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/October_18   (1167 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : October (Monthly Overview)
October falls during the liturgical season known as Ordinary Time, which is represented by the liturgical color green.
All the Gospels for the Sundays in October 2005 are taken from Cycle A, the Gospel of St. Matthew.
October 16 is known as "Pope Day" on which we celebrate the gift of the papacy and our current pope.
www.catholicculture.org /lit/overviews/months/10.cfm   (1114 words)

  
 Listings (October 12 - October 18, 1995)
Performing October 13 through 15 only: Il Trovatore, the tragic tale of a gypsy woman's vicious past and how it ruins the future happiness of her son, leading him to a downward spiral of tragedy and destruction.
Thursday, October 12, in the College of Architecture Auditorium, UA campus, south of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue.
Wednesday, October 18, in the Modern Languages Building auditorium on the UA campus, north side of the mall west of Cherry Avenue.
www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/10-12-95/citylist.htm   (4367 words)

  
 October 18, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
October 18, 2004                                                                                        ITEM # 9
EWEF receives approximately 90% of its operational funding from Smart Start and will be unable to continue with services beyond this period.
EWEF is requesting one-time funding of $120,000 from Wake County to continue services through June 30, 2005.
www.wakegov.com /agendas/october18/9/cover.htm   (238 words)

  
 eBay - october 18, Magazine Back Issues, Cards items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Sports Illustrated October 18, 2000 Olympics 3D glasses
October 18 1971 TIME Magazine John Connally Economy
Gerhard Richter, October 18, 1977 by Robert Storr (2...
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=october+18&newu=1&krd=1   (440 words)

  
 Daschle v. Thune: October 18, 2004 - October 24, 2004
October 25, 2004 - October 31, 2004 »;
We should spend some time reviewing yesterday's Lopez article on the Senate race and abortion in which she writes that Daschle "is running rings around his record, trying to deny his abortion-industry-approved Senate career." More on this soon.
Sharon Gray is at the podium, Jeannie Faber is to the left, and the Executive Director of Ave Maria is in the center.
daschlevthune.typepad.com /daschle_v_thune/2004/week43   (13360 words)

  
 October 18, 2001
Also at high risk are people over 65 (but there won't be too many students in that category) and people who live, work or volunteer in nursing homes, hospitals and similar places.
Also included are "children and adolescents (aged 6 months to 18 years) treated for long periods with acetylsalicylic acid", as well as health care workers and emergency service workers.
Note from St. Paul's United College: Lee Maracle, "a member of the Sto:loh nation, mother of four and grandmother of four", is on campus this fall to teach and lecture.
www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca /2001/oct/18th.html   (1887 words)

  
 CCNET - News - October 18, 2002
In appearance, the homes are a mix of traditional and modern, but all are powered entirely by the sun and incorporate state-of-the-art energy efficiency technologies.
The number-one ranked company on the Deloitte and Touche 2002 Colorado Technology Fast 50 is coalition member UQM Technologies, Inc., with revenue growth of 3,057 percent over five years.
The October meeting of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) feature students from the University of Colorado at Boulder who recently won the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon (see article earlier in newsletter).
www.newenergytechnologies.org /colorado/news/2002-10-18.htm   (2864 words)

  
 October 18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Borodin conducted research into the musical culture of the Polovtsian tribes, but he settled in the end on the vague orientalism so popular in Russian music at the time.
At his death 18 years later he left the score unfinished and mostly unorchestrated.
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov took upon himself to finish the manuscript and in the process “modified” the orchestration to fit his own ideas.
www.gwinnettphilharmonic.org /october_182005prognotes.htm   (1298 words)

  
 WDW Update October 18 - 24 2004
Last week, we told you about the union picketing at the October 4 opening of the new World of Disney Store in New York City, but neglected to tell you about the store itself.
The Disneyland Hotel sees a range of a 2 percent decrease to a 10 percent increase in value season, increases from 6 to 15 percent in regular season, and increases of 14 to 27 percent in peak season.
October 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29 and 31.
www.mouseplanet.com /parkupdates/wdw/wdw041018.htm   (3058 words)

  
 WTC Enviromental Monitoring: October 17-18, 2001
PM 2.5 - Monitoring for fine particulate matter (particles less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter) was conducted from October 14 to October 16 at Pace University, the Borough of Manhattan Community College and the U.S. Coast Guard building, located in Battery Park.
Monitoring for PM 10 was conducted from October 3 through October 8 at P.S. 274 in Brooklyn and from October 4 to October 7 at the Canal Street Post Office.
VOCs - Sampling for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) was conducted on October 16 in the plume in the debris pile.
www.epa.gov /wtc/summaries/epa-osha101701.htm   (675 words)

  
 RightMom » Tyler Perry: “Medea” Acts Out (October 18 on TNT)
He will be hosting (I think) the Black Movie Awards on October 18 on TNT.
I’m fine, but if you miss the Black Movie Awards on October 18th, on TNT (cable), then you are going to be sorry.
I missed “The Black Movie Awards” on October 18, (shame on me,) but I did get the play, “Why Did I Get Married.
rightmom.net /?p=274   (927 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977: Books: Robert Storr,Gerhard Richter,Museum of Modern Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
Destined to rank among the most eloquent and thorough examinations of a major suite of paintings, Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977 combines a lean, persuasively argued text with an elegantly sober design suited to the subject matter.
Richter's 15 fl-and-white paintings commemorate the day two leaders of the radical German Baader-Meinhof group, disillusioned men and women in their 30s and early 40s whose loyalty to the dogma of the Red Army Faction had led them to commit numerous terrorist acts, were found dead in their prison cells.
1932) is one of the most highly regarded of contemporary artists, and his series of 15 paintings known as October 18, 1977, is one of the 20th century's most famous works on a political theme.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810961040?v=glance   (1497 words)

  
 October 18, 1998
Next week he will be driving from Sydney to Perth with a convoy of utes to raise money for the Flying Doctors and A Youth Suicide charity.
On the October 31, Allan will be striving to break the world record for the number of utes and dogs present in one location, at one time.
The current record is 352, but Allan is hoping to smash the old record with 600 utes.
www.abc.net.au /landline/ll181098.htm   (895 words)

  
 By-Lion -- October 18, 2004
Monday, Oct. 18 in the northwest parking lot of the War Memorial Student Union.
A live, around the clock webcast of the Southeastern Channel on Charter Cable Channel 18 is now available on the channel’s award-winning web site, www.selu.edu/tv.
It can be seen on Charter Cable Channel 18 in Tangipahoa, St. Tammany, and Livingston parishes and on Channel 17 in Washington Parish.
www.selu.edu /NewsEvents/PublicInfoOffice/bl10-18-04.html   (3936 words)

  
 October 18, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
For Fire Safety Week, we had a fire-truck and fireman from the Baldwin Fire Department join us at school to educate the students on what to in case of a fire.
The 5th grade class created a public service announcement that will be aired on Tuesday, October 19, 2004, on certain local stations.
The food drive is part of the International Thespian Society's national Food for Tots drive held each year in October.
www.stmary.k12.la.us /theweekahead/TWAOctober18,2004.htm   (2006 words)

  
 This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: October 12, 2003 - October 18, 2003 Archives
October 19, 2003 - October 25, 2003 »;
As previously noted, a current talking point among the apologists is that no one ever claimed that Saddam actually posed an imminent threat—but rather, we had to invade because he might someday become a threat.
Case in point: a speech by the President on October 8, 2002.
www.thismodernworld.com /weblog/mtarchives/week_2003_10_12.html   (4657 words)

  
 Comments on 20912 | MetaFilter
Hamlet and Lolita were the only ones I've actually read, but the Lolita one in particular was hilarious.
I was practically on the floor over "Hope is the thing with feathers." Good stuff, but a little slim.
I don't know what Maxim's doing in there, but it seems to me that could be a slide used in an editorial meeting.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/20912   (371 words)

  
 Gentoo Linux Newsletter -- October 18, 2004
Last Saturday, 15 October, MGLUG's Gentooistas and other Linux users from Munich's general LUG (celebrating its 10th anniversary this year) and neighboring Erding LUG had organized a joint event with "Berkeley in Munich", the local BSD community.
Never mind that weighing the pros and cons at this thread in the Gentoo forums only has "half-naked dancers" on the plus-side of the balance sheet - you'll still be able to meet one or the other Gentooist among the almost 400,000 visitors expected at the event.
Gentoo figures as one of the supported distributions in a press release by Central Command, Inc., a privately held company in Ohio providing anti-virus software that is going to be offered as a server-side application bundled with the services of Outblaze Ltd., a global provider of hosted email headquartered in Hong Kong.
www.gentoo.org /news/en/gwn/20041018-newsletter.xml   (1528 words)

  
 2005 October 18 - BlackInformant.com
Posted by Duane in Science & Technology (Tuesday October 18, 2005 at 5:38 pm)
Posted by Duane in The Education Report (Tuesday October 18, 2005 at 4:58 pm)
Let’s face it, there are way too many people in our families that suffer from from high blood pressure.
blackinformant.com /2005/10/18   (529 words)

  
 Anime News Service - October 14-18 Anime News
October 18, 2001 Los Angeles, CA - Kazuya Tsurumaki, director of the cutting-edge, Japanese animated mini-series FLCL (pronounced Fooly Cooly), will be making an appearance at the OmochaBox retail store on October 27th from 2 p.m.
FLCL is a psychedelic, surreal fantasy set in modern day Japan in a little town called Mabase where the life of pre-teen Naota is torn asunder by the outrageous alien Haruko and the flirtatious, picture of innocence Mamimi.
The 1st story was broadcast on October 11th of 2001 Episode 2 airs on Thursday 22:54 - 22:56 on www.fujitv.co.jp/ bureaus in Japan.
www.animenewsservice.com /archives/oct7.htm   (6510 words)

  
 INCOMING! OCTOBER 18, 2004.
Not only were they suffering from the sting of being called "foppish Mama's boys" and "powdered wig monkeys" by the rebels, they were surrounded by nearly 14,000 American troops.
On October 19, Lord Cornwallis surrendered his 7,000 troops to the colonists at Yorktown, Virg., effectively ending the Revolutionary War.
Each year, in order to "keep it real" for the "kids," the APIC selects a theme for the week.
www.blacktable.com /incoming041018.htm   (1662 words)

  
 Harold's Corner - October 2004 Entries
posted @ Saturday, October 30, 2004 6:51 PM
posted @ Monday, October 18, 2004 10:47 PM
posted @ Wednesday, October 06, 2004 12:18 AM
harold.dotnet17.hostbasket.com /blog/archive/2004/10.aspx   (174 words)

  
 BeldarBlog: October 18, 2004 - October 24, 2004 Archives
I continue to be amazed at the traffic my blog has generated in August, September, and October, and simply want to thank those of you who've stopped by — including those who have expressed disagreeing opinions in my comments sections.
Update (Mon Oct 18 @ 3:45pm): The relentless, counterfactual spin continues, as per the latest AP story, which recites that "Democrats hailed the ruling, calling it proof that the map is unfair to Texas voters":
Texas Democratic Party Chairman Charles Soechting said the ruling should be at the forefront of voters' minds as they cast their ballots in the coming days.
beldar.blogs.com /beldarblog/2004/week43   (12776 words)

  
 NucNews - October 18, 2001
The B1 reactor at the 1,400 megawatt Chooz plant in Chalons en Champagne in the northeast was shut on October 13 to inspect a primary pump joint, the ministry said in its data released for the week October 8-14.
Orlean's 900 MW Chinon plant restarted its B4 reactor on October 14 after it was stopped on October 4 to inspect its principal transformer, while in Lyon, the 1,300 MW St. Albans plant restarted after a 5-day shutdown.
JERUSALEM, Oct. 18 (Thursday) -- Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, an extreme nationalist who advocated emptying Israeli-occupied territories of all Palestinians, was shot dead in a hotel hallway Wednesday by at least one Palestinian assassin.
nucnews.net /nucnews/2001nn/0110nn/011018nn.htm   (20980 words)

  
 DISEASE INFORMATION 21 October 2005; Vol. 18 - No. 42
The affected fish were traced to a trial batch of 30 fish imported from a new source in Malaysia.
All the smuggled animals were destroyed on 15 October 2005 and 46 samples collected from the 1,037 birds present were sent for laboratory examination.
From the first wave of avian influenza in January 2004, a decree was issued banning the importation of live poultry and any products capable of spreading influenza from countries known to have the disease.
www.oie.int /eng/info/hebdo/AIS_48.HTM   (3825 words)

  
 October 18, 2005, NIAID Funding News -- Newsletter -- NIAID Research Funding
On September 30, the Senate passed a continuing resolution to keep NIH and other programs running while we await passage of our appropriations bill.
It funds programs at the level of the bill passed by the House, which is lower than our FY 2005 appropriations.
New submission dates are February 25, June 25, and October 25, while AIDS-related dates remain May 1, September 1, and January 2.
www.niaid.nih.gov /ncn/newsletters/2005/1018.htm   (1934 words)

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